Sentences with phrase «based justice mechanisms»

There are numerous new initiatives in Australia developing community based justice mechanisms for Indigenous people which are based on restorative justice principles.

There are numerous new initiatives in Australia developing community based justice mechanisms for dealing with juvenile and adult offending by Indigenous people.

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In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

Justice Breyer suggested that, although a Phillips - based standard might be appropriate if Congress intended to create a «little court proceeding,» the BRI standard might be appropriate if Congress intended IPR proceedings as a mechanism to allow the public to force a second look at many patents controlled by patent trolls that never should have been allowed.

Topics include: the digital divide and the risk of two tiers of justice; the role of the courts and law schools in providing legal services; the impact of technology on access to the legal system; basic practices for using technology to increase access; and the implications of technology - based dispute resolution mechanisms outside of the courts; a comparative analysis of the US approach to access to the legal system and other countries.

Existing community justice mechanisms will need a greater concentration of human and financial resources over an extended time - frame are to become the basis of greater Indigenous autonomy and governance.

It should be noted that community consultations primarily with Indigenous women in April 2003 led the Commission to conclude that legislative approaches to facilitate community justice mechanisms based in the recognition of customary law (such as the establishment of a system of Indigenous tribunals) should not be pursued without adequate modeling at a policy level or without extensive consultation and local level participation of Aboriginal communities.